Excited to receive the first copies of the new edition of "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future." Available on June 2. I have extensively updated the book to cover the latest advances in generative #AI and robotics and to examine the future
INNOVATION
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China’s Advanced Electric Rails and US Potential for Innovation
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Good morning. @kareem_carr says us AI boosters aren't believable. Well, it's good enough to build this: https://
alignednews.com/ai, thanks @blevlabs
. And it is good enough to drive our car. Thanks @Tesla
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Boston Dynamics Spot Uses AI for Whole-Body Tire Manipulation
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Boston Dynamics’ Spot Masters Whole-Body Manipulation — Using AI to Drag, Roll, and Stack 15 kg Tires with Precision
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 4 mai 2026
by @rai_inst#Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology pic.twitter.com/nQf4l1xOGSBoston Dynamics’ Spot Masters Whole-Body Manipulation — Using AI to Drag, Roll, and Stack 15 kg Tires with Precision
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Investor Backs Cofounder AI Agent as Standout Agentic Product
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since babyagi, i've seen hundreds of agentic products and pitches
— Yohei (@yoheinakajima) 4 mai 2026
there are only a few i immediately loved, and only one that i invested in past my usual entry stage
that was cofounder 1 from @intelligenceco , and it was hard to believe 4 people had built that entire thing in a… https://t.co/PTPxOs5eh5since babyagi, i've seen hundreds of agentic products and pitches there are only a few i immediately loved, and only one that i invested in past my usual entry stage that was cofounder 1 from @intelligenceco , and it was hard to believe 4 people had built that entire thing in a
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LimX Tron2 Humanoid Robot Designed for High-Volume Data Capture
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Meet Tron2: LimX’s Next-Gen Humanoid for High-Volume #Data Capture
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 4 mai 2026
via @CyberRobooo#AI #Robotics #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #Technology pic.twitter.com/LUOABYXT4sMeet Tron2: LimX’s Next-Gen Humanoid for High-Volume #Data Capture
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Little-Known Startup Breaks Into Top 6 AI Video Leaderboard
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A little-known startup just landed on the @ArtificialAnlys AI leaderboard, now ranked among the top 6 in the world. Very cool @video_rebirth
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Robotics and AI Convergence: Automation of Complex Human Gestures
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Top stories in robotics today: – Meta snaps up robotics startup ARI
– 1X opens massive NEO humanoid factory
– Figure claims it can build a robot every hour
– Uber to turn its drivers into an AV sensor grid
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AI Renders 1000 Cyberpunk Scenes in Under an Hour
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10/ 1000 cyberpunk anime night scenes in under an hour Not concepts. Not sketches. Fully rendered. The bottleneck stopped being skill or time. It is now imagination.
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AI Generates $5000 Product Visualization From Single Prompt
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9/ Full exploded view animation
— AI Highlight (@AIHighlight) 4 mai 2026
The kind of product visualization agencies charge $5,000 for. Generated from a single prompt.https://t.co/AtKXT7IK0c9/ Full exploded view animation The kind of product visualization agencies charge $5,000 for. Generated from a single prompt.
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Claude Now Controls Blender Adobe Autodesk Ableton and More Directly
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BREAKING: Claude now controls Blender, Adobe, Autodesk Fusion, Ableton, Splice, SketchUp, and Resolume directly. The skill barrier that defined 3D, music production, and motion design for 30 years just collapsed. 10 examples that show what is now possible: